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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

More Healthy Americans Will Slash Medicare

The good news is that life
expectancy among the elderly is now the prime factor in increasing the averages
and that there is a fall off in actual health costs underway.

I will go beyond this.Health restoration has either become possible
or will be possible inside the next decade.An individual can expect to be sufficiently restored in health to
function comfortably into their tenth decade.It will become at least possible.

This also implies that the
lifeways of the elderly also needs to change to take advantage of all
this.The continuing need for light
labor in the agricultural setting supplies a ready answer.It also provides ample light exercise that
promotes good health.

As I have posted before, we are
entering a great economic restructuring that will redirect and better manage
human energies.Most reading this blog
will live through it all.

Forty years ago, Americans could expect to live slightly longer than
Europeans. This has since reversed: in spite of similar levels of economic development,
Americans now live about a year-and-a-half less, on average, than their Western
European counterparts, and also less than people in most other developed
nations. How did Americans fall behind?

A study in the July 2011 issue of Social Science and Medicine is the
first to calculate the fiscal consequences of the growing life expectancy gap
over the next few decades. The study also pinpoints the crucial age at which U.S.
life expectancy starts to deteriorate.

Specifically, researchers from the University of Southern California
and colleagues at RAND Corp. and HarvardSchool of Public Health
find that health in middle-age - around the age of 50 - is overwhelmingly the
main contributor to disparities in life expectancy between Americans and
Europeans.

In the first half of the last century, average life expectancy
increased by saving more babies, explains author Dana Goldman, director of the
Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at USC and Norman
Topping/National Medical Enterprises Chair in Medicine and Public Policy at
USC. "But now it is reduction in mortality among the elderly, rather than
the young, that propels increases in life expectancy."

Accounting for levels of socioeconomic diversity in the United States and predicted future demographic
estimates, the researchers found much of the life expectancy gap would disappear
if the United States
lowered prevalence of middle-aged obesity and obesity-related chronic diseases
such as diabetes and hypertension to European levels.

The researchers also consider the health consequences of smoking on
future life expectancy trends. While the prevalence of smoking is likely to
continue decreasing in the future, the results of this study correspond to a
National Research Council study led by Eileen Crimmins, AARP Chair in
Gerontology at the USCDavisSchool
of Gerontology.

Released in January 2011, Crimmins' research looked at life
expectancy over the last 25 years and found that smoking - and to a lesser
extent obesity - were the two major reasons why U.S. life expectancy has fallen
short of other high-income nations in the past.

Improving American health during middle age in the future to increase
life expectancy would increase later-life pension benefits. But this
expenditure would be offset by a significant decrease in health care costs - at
least $17,791 per person, the researchers estimate.

Though the transition to better health initially raises expenditures,
the researchers estimate that by 2050 health care savings from gradual
middle-age health improvements could total more than $1.1 trillion.

"The international life expectancy gap appears much easier to
explain than gaps within countries: there is no American-specific effect on
longevity beyond differences in disease at age 50," explained author
Darius Lakdawalla, Director of Research at the Schaeffer Center at USC and
associate professor in the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development.

The research offers compelling evidence that poor health behaviors
among middle-aged Americans - and not inefficiency in the U.S. health care system - are
primarily responsible for earlier death. Indeed, prior research has shown that
the U.S.
does a good job keeping people alive once they are sick, ranking highly in life
expectancy among people with chronic or terminal illness.

The researchers looked at a group of Western European countries
including Denmark, France, Germany,
Greece, Italy, The Netherlands,
Spain and Sweden.

Pierre-Carl Michaud of the Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada and
RAND Corp. is lead author of the study. The research was funded by the U.S. Department
of Labor, the National Institute on Aging, and the MacArthur Research Network
on an Aging Society.

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